Climate change politics

Some weeks ago I wrote about how politics is interfering with obvious solutions to the Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Health Care problems. Today I want to point out how politics is getting in the way positive climate change.
The first big mistake was ethanol. It is now shown that producing ethanol uses up more energy than it makes. We always knew this and that is why it was heavily subsidized by the government. One of the biggest expenses with ethanol is the final distillation, which separated the ethanol from water. If we want to go this direction then the best approach is to develop a microbe that will produce a hydrocarbon like 2, 2, 4 tri-methyl pentane. Have the microbe designed to feed off of cellulose products like the grasses that grow wild in the Midwest states like the Dakotas. You can harvest several crops per year and the grass needs no irrigation, no herbicides, no pesticides and no fertilizer. The hydrocarbon is not soluble in water, so it can be skimmed off the top and avoid the costly distillation process.
The second mistake is going to hybrid cars. We know that the biggest CO2 producing fuels are coal, oil and natural gas in that order. We know that 40% of the electric power is produced using coal. With the hybrid we are using less oil and more coal and this is self-defeating.
The third mistake is the unwillingness to consider nuclear power, which not only produces energy without CO2 it would make the use of hybrids more sensible.
The reasons for these mistakes are purely political and have to do with turning more power over to the government and thus we have environmentalist determining policy. Many of the people in the environmental movement used to be the pro Gorbachev, anti Reagan people who prefer a more socialist type government. They feel that the US is the root of many of the world’s problems and would like to bring us more in line with other countries especially in the area of economics and military. That is why the phrase “the new red is green” is popular. It is the reason for the somewhat dubious claims of the global warming group and the push for green jobs by using cap and trade. Combine these changes with giving control over them to some international group as was attempted in Copenhagen and the US will be brought down to size.
The people who are concerned about jobs realize that when it comes time to produce the equipment needed for the new green industries that most of this will be done overseas where labor is less expensive. The US will innovate and China and India will produce as this has been going on for some time now and will only be accelerated with new industries. One example to illustrate my point.

Germany, The United States, Spain, India, followed by China are the top 5 manufactures of wind turbines. However China is expected to become the world's largest wind turbine producer by 2009 with 40 manufacturing plants within the country. By 2010 two major Chinese companies, Goldwind and Sinovel, should be exporting wind turbines. Although wind energy is one of the fastest growing methods for clean energy production, with a average annual growth rate of over 28% in the past ten years, it still only provides a small fraction of energy for our total energy consumption needs.
John aka Jack Novick